The labour party is like a stage-coach.
HAROLD WILSONSelsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase ‘freedom of the press’ used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.
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If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.
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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.
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The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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